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Updated: May 13, 2025
When I told these here folks where I was from I braced myself, expectin' to have a fight right there, but I want to tell you that I was never better treated in my life. All the good folks ain't huddled together in one community, I tell you; and this knockin' round has opened my eyes mightily. Why, I rickollect when they sorter looked down on Conkwright because his father wa'n't born in the South.
Yes, sir, give my warmest regards to that old woman, for if she isn't a Christian there never was one. Well, what are you hanging around here for? Trying to thank me? Is that it? Well, just go on, my boy, and we'll attend to that some other time." "You know what I feel, Mr. Conkwright, and I will not attempt to thank you, but I must say that I was never more surprised in a man.
I met him again early at morning, and before the day was half-grown I saw our transaction spread upon the records. And at night Ging arrived. I introduced him to Conkwright. "The Judge will represent me," said I, "and I will stand by any agreement he may enter into with you." "All right," Ging replied. "How far is it out to the mine?" "About five miles." "Better go out to-night.
That's all I want the house, the path and the spring, with just a little strip running a short distance down the brook where the moss is so thick. I have the promise of money from Perdue, and I think that I can borrow some of Conkwright. Yes, I must have the house and the path and the spring and the strip of moss-land that lies along the branch.
I went to see Conkwright and told him of the threat that Stuart had made, and the old man's eyes glistened. "We ought to have had that girl on the stand in the first place," he said. "But it was a delicate matter and, of course, we didn't know that she could bear so strongly upon the case. It's all right better as it is, and that boy will get off as sure as you are sitting there.
Parker said that it was time for him to go, and, adding that he would meet Jucklin in town, left us at the door. Mrs. Jucklin was brighter than I had expected to find her, and when I told her what Conkwright had said, that Alf would surely be acquitted, the light of a new hope leaped into her eyes. "I told Limuel that God would not permit such a wrong," she said. "Didn't I, Limuel?"
That threat was worse than his standing in the road, waiting. Yes, sir, it's all right, and you may take up your school again and go ahead with your work." "I don't want to go ahead with it, Mr. Conkwright. I want to study law with you. The school was only a makeshift, any way. You are getting old and you need some one to do the drudgery of your office. I will come in and work faithfully."
I scrambled up and hastened toward the court-house, and at the steps I met a number of men coming out. "It's all over," one of them said to me. "Imprisonment for life. Conkwright has moved for a new trial and the judge has granted it." I hastened to the jail, whither they had taken Alf. I found him seated on his bed. He got up when he saw me.
He's an old lion-tamer, I tell you, and if I had any interest in that fellow Etheredge I'd advise him to walk pretty straight. But the old man has quieted down mightily of late years." Alf had undergone no change. He was glad to know that Conkwright took an interest in him, but he shook his head when I told him that we were sure to win.
I haven't earned it, and shall not earn it. I am not going to teach your school." "The deuce you say! Why, my grandson thinks there ain't nobody in the world like you says you can whip any livin' man. You must teach that school." "No, I am going to study law with Judge Conkwright." "What, with him? Don't you do it. Why, there ain't a harder hearted man on the face of the earth than he is.
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